Meet our leadership
- management
- board
Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder
Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder
Sanjit Biswas is the CEO and co-founder of Samsara, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. He co-founded the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. The Samsara Connected Operations Cloud, a leading system of record for physical operations, supports tens of thousands of customers. Samsara has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 US Best Places to Work, one of Deloitte's 2022 North America Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing companies, and as the IoT Analytics Company of the Year in the 2022 IoT Breakthrough Awards.
Prior to Samsara, Sanjit was the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, one of the most successful networking companies of the past decade. Sanjit grew Meraki from his Ph.D. research into a complete enterprise networking portfolio, with cloud-based management that revolutionized the deployment of large networks. Meraki's sales doubled every year from inception, earning the company tens of thousands of customers. In 2012, Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion. Under his leadership, Cisco Meraki continued to grow at over 100%, making it one of Cisco's fastest-growing product lines in history.
Sanjit has been recognized as an MIT Technology Review "Innovator Under 35" honoree, a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Glassdoor's 2018 Top CEO, one of Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and one of The Software Report's top 50 SaaS CEOs. He has received many awards for academic research in computer networking and is an investor in several startups. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He lives in the Bay area with his family.
John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder
John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder
John is the CTO and Co-Founder of Samsara, a company that enables businesses with physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. He co-founded the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. He is responsible for Samsara's disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure.
Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering. At Meraki, he led the Meraki technical team and built a cloud-based platform that combines analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed wifi and networking infrastructure. Originating from his research while a Ph. D. student at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based services that became the most widely deployed cloud managed edge networking platform. Meraki's product lines spanning wifi, switching, routing, firewalls, and mobile-device-management scaled to connect hundreds of millions of network devices across more than 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco's fastest-growing cloud product and one of Cisco’s most successful acquisitions.
John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
Lara Caimi
President of Worldwide Field Operations
Lara Caimi
President of Worldwide Field Operations
Lara brings nearly 25 years of experience to Samsara, where she is responsible for leading Sales and Customer Outcomes. Before Samsara, Lara was Chief Customer and Partner Officer for ServiceNow, overseeing nearly 2,500 global employees across organizations including customer success, professional services, and channel ecosystem. Previously, she served as ServiceNow’s Chief Strategy Officer. Before joining ServiceNow, Lara was a partner at Bain & Company, where she advised technology companies on growth and go-to-market strategy.
Lara holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and English Literature from St. Olaf College, a MIB from the University of Sydney as a Fulbright Scholar, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Dominic Phillips
Chief Financial Officer
Dominic Phillips
Chief Financial Officer
Dominic is the EVP, Chief Financial Officer at Samsara and leads worldwide financial operations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, procurement, tax, treasury, corporate development, investor relations, legal, IT, and real estate. Previously, Dominic was VP of Finance and Head of Corporate Development at ServiceNow where he led several finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, investor relations, treasury, and corporate development. Prior to ServiceNow, Dominic was a VP on Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking team where he advised technology companies on a wide range of transformational financings and strategic transactions.
Dominic holds a B.S. in Business from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Kiren Sekar
Chief Product Officer
Kiren Sekar
Chief Product Officer
Kiren Sekar leads Samsara’s global product organization as Chief Product Officer, overseeing the company’s product strategy, roadmap, and development activities. Kiren led the Product organization since founding, and also served as Samsara’s Chief Strategy Officer between July 2022 and February 2024.
Prior to joining Samsara, Kiren was VP of Marketing at Meraki (now part of Cisco Systems), where he helped grow the business from $5M to over $500M in annual revenue. Prior to that, Kiren held software engineering and management positions at various startups and at Apple, and holds patents for network protocol design from his work there.
Kiren has a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford.
Ben Calderon
CTO, Hardware & Operations
Ben Calderon
CTO, Hardware & Operations
Ben brings over 15 years of experience to Samsara, where he is responsible for hardware design and operations. Before Samsara, Ben was VP of Hardware Engineering and Operations at Meraki, where he led the development of over 40 unique hardware products. Working with the industry's top semiconductor companies, Ben created a nimble development and supply chain operation that enabled Meraki to rapidly bring new products to market and scale to ship hundreds of thousands of units globally. Prior to Meraki, Ben was a key member of Apple's hardware team, where he managed notebook launches and iPod supply chains. Ben has also developed PVD and CVD semiconductor equipment at Applied Materials.
Ben has an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford.
Adam Eltoukhy
Chief Legal Officer
Adam Eltoukhy
Chief Legal Officer
Steve Pickle
Chief People Officer
Steve Pickle
Chief People Officer
Steve Pickle joins Samsara from Salesforce, where he was Executive Vice President of Global People Strategy and Operations. He served in that role from 2018 to 2022. Pickle was Salesforce’s Interim Chief People Officer in 2019, helping to oversee Salesforce’s $15B acquisition of Tableau. Before that, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Salesforce’s Enterprise Business Unit, the Head of Cloud Sales in the Americas, and as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Strategy and Global Pipeline. Prior to Salesforce, he served as Vice President of Strategy and Operations at VMware from 2011-2012. Pickle graduated from Grinnell College, and holds a M.Sc from The London School of Economics and Political Science and a MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
Robert Stobaugh
Chief Customer Officer
Robert Stobaugh
Chief Customer Officer
Robert leads Customer Outcomes at Samsara and is responsible for enabling customers to get the most value from its products through effective implementation, training, and ongoing engagement. In his prior role as Director of Business Operations, Robert enabled the scaling of Samsara by leading sales productivity, market entry, and operational efficiency initiatives as well as building the Business Operations function. Before Samsara, Robert was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company where he led over 25 growth, efficiency, and organization building initiatives for global organizations.
Robert holds a B.S. in Economics from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.
Stephen Franchetti
Chief Information Officer
Stephen Franchetti
Chief Information Officer
Stephen is the CIO at Samsara. He oversees all aspects of the company’s Information Technology including, business applications, data & analytics, information security, IT service management, and all core IT services.
Before joining Samsara, Stephen was the CIO at Slack, and then previously the Vice President IT, Enterprise Applications at Workday. He also held positions at Cisco in a range of e-commerce, employee services and IT roles.
Stephen has a track record of creating best in class IT organizations that focus on automation engineering and enabling companies to scale and remain agile as they grow.
He earned his bachelor of science, with honors, in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dave Bossio
Chief Information Security Officer
Dave Bossio
Chief Information Security Officer
Philip van der Wilt
SVP EMEA
Philip van der Wilt
SVP EMEA
With 25 years of experience in building and scaling companies across multiple markets and product categories, Philip serves as SVP EMEA at Samsara where he is responsible for the EMEA operations. Previously, Philip served as SVP, GM of EMEA at ServiceNow where he successfully grew EMEA revenue from $250 million to over $1 billion. Prior to ServiceNow, Philip served as the VP of Sales / Theater Lead for the EMEA region at Commvault and held a number of leadership roles at Data Domain/EMC. Earlier in his career, he was country manager for the Benelux region, and later for Western Europe and Africa at Decru, a NetApp company.
Philip holds an MBA from Bradford University.
Andrew Munk
Chief Accounting Officer
Andrew Munk
Chief Accounting Officer
Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder
Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder
Sanjit Biswas is the CEO and co-founder of Samsara, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. He co-founded the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. The Samsara Connected Operations Cloud, a leading system of record for physical operations, supports tens of thousands of customers. Samsara has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 US Best Places to Work, one of Deloitte's 2022 North America Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing companies, and as the IoT Analytics Company of the Year in the 2022 IoT Breakthrough Awards.
Prior to Samsara, Sanjit was the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, one of the most successful networking companies of the past decade. Sanjit grew Meraki from his Ph.D. research into a complete enterprise networking portfolio, with cloud-based management that revolutionized the deployment of large networks. Meraki's sales doubled every year from inception, earning the company tens of thousands of customers. In 2012, Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion. Under his leadership, Cisco Meraki continued to grow at over 100%, making it one of Cisco's fastest-growing product lines in history.
Sanjit has been recognized as an MIT Technology Review "Innovator Under 35" honoree, a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Glassdoor's 2018 Top CEO, one of Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and one of The Software Report's top 50 SaaS CEOs. He has received many awards for academic research in computer networking and is an investor in several startups. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He lives in the Bay area with his family.
John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder
John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder
John is the CTO and Co-Founder of Samsara, a company that enables businesses with physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. He co-founded the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. He is responsible for Samsara's disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure.
Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering. At Meraki, he led the Meraki technical team and built a cloud-based platform that combines analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed wifi and networking infrastructure. Originating from his research while a Ph. D. student at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based services that became the most widely deployed cloud managed edge networking platform. Meraki's product lines spanning wifi, switching, routing, firewalls, and mobile-device-management scaled to connect hundreds of millions of network devices across more than 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco's fastest-growing cloud product and one of Cisco’s most successful acquisitions.
John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.
Marc Andreessen
Founding Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Marc Andreessen
Founding Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Hemant Taneja
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Hemant Taneja
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Sue Wagner
Former Co-Founder and COO, BlackRock
Sue Wagner
Former Co-Founder and COO, BlackRock
Jonathan Chadwick
Former CFO, VMWare
Jonathan Chadwick
Former CFO, VMWare
Sue Bostrom
Former CMO, Cisco Systems
Sue Bostrom
Former CMO, Cisco Systems
Ann Livermore
Former Executive Vice President, HP Enterprise
Ann Livermore
Former Executive Vice President, HP Enterprise
Todd Bluedorn
Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Lennox International
Todd Bluedorn
Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Lennox International